Like, if the lead writer was happy to publish that kind of thing, maybe the game was never coming out. “The Half-Life community took that as a signal that Half-Life 3 was probably not going to happen. “It was sort of vaguely cryptic, but everyone quickly realized that it was his interpretation of what Half-Life: Episode Three was supposed to be,” says Sam Walton, PR lead for the fan-driven Project Borealis. Laidlaw didn’t use the words Half-Life, Gordon Freeman, or Combine in his post, but the inference was clear: This was the outline for the missing episode in the Half-Life series. The post detailed the exploits of a couple of scientists who traveled to the arctic in search of a mysterious ship that had begun to shift in and out of reality. On August 25, 2017, Half-Life writer and ex-Valve employee Marc Laidlaw wrote a blog post called Epistle 3.
